The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-11-02
SENTINEL SCRAP-BAG.

A priests skull cap is black. a c ardinaPs
is red. and the Pope's is white.
There Is a complaint in some parts OF
Oregon of scarcity of cheap Chinese Ia
Dor.
There are twice as many coIored Baptists
as there are white, in the state of Mississ-
ippi
An old woman at San Jose. Cal, has sold
her property and left the tow from fear of
ghosts.
yearliDg colt, owned by Matthew
Moyle, OF Westport, Cal, weighs l.395
pounds.
Competing manufacturers in Baltimore
have begun paste war. Both sides promise
to stick.
There are in Boston between 800 and 900
negroes who were born SUBJECTS to the
British crown.
The Queen of Roumania has just CON-
pleted novel, the scene being laid among
the ancient Dacians.
Pigeons have almost entirely disapo pear
ed from the streets of Boston, where once
they were so numerous.
A firm in Springfield, VT, that makes
baby carriages says that the wealthy buy
the cheaper kinds of carriages.
A Texas jury gave verdict of 1913 in
favor of a man whose dog had been run
over and killed by railway train.
A Syracuse policeman has been suspended
from duty because he declined to canvass
for votes for sergeant who was a candi-
date for buggy to be voted for at church
fair.
During the past dozen years eleven men
have been murdered in the neighborhood
of Wharton, Canada yet not q single person
has been punished for the single one OF the
crimes.
Among novelties in inkstands is one Of
a tripod of coaching horns holding a
wheel. in the hub of which is found the
ink. The whole thing is on a stand cover
ed with miniature borse-blanket.
at Calais, Me, the other evening, gen.
tleman gave birthday dinner, and all
the game served was shot for the occasion
by the host. At the plate OF each guest
was souvenir OF snipe wings, arranged
with bright ribbons.
Ii is said that the net profits of the Petit
Journal, the most extensively circulated
paper IN the world, are now $500 900
year. 1t affords employment to over
eleven thousand Parisians. and is owned
and run on the CO operative plan.
DR.. Elliott Coues, the well-known orui-
biologist, of Washington. was married to
Mrs. Mary Emily Bates, of Philadelph:s,
at the Hotel Nendome, in Boston, Tues
day. Edward Everett Hale officiated, and
Mr.. Estes, of the firm of Estes e Lsurist,
was best man.
Lady Blunt. who insisted last Sunday
on sharing her husbands imprisonment at
Weodford, County Galway, for presiding
at q Home Rule meeting, is q grand
daughter OF Lord Byron. It will be re-
membered that her grandfather tried to
help the Gresks to home rule.
G. NJ. Crouch, a farmer seveuty-six years
NJ age, of Preston, Texss, died a few days
since, literally eaten to death by a maggot
known as the screw worm. The cattle fly
lays the eggs in fresh blood. They were
deposited in Crouch's nostrIls while be was
ssleap his nose having bled just previous
ly. His tongue and the pslate OF the
mouth were eaten out and the throat cut
by their incessant working.
Though high license has been in exis-
tence less than four months in Minnesota,
and in many places has not yet gone into
operation, stillEenough OF its benefits
have been seen 10 encourage the
friends of the system. Where il is in force
the number OF saloons have been reduced
one-third and the revenue returns have in
creased over fifty per cent. There are now
$50 fewer saloons than before high license
became law, and when it is in full force
1t is said that there will be 900 fewer
saloons.
A young man covered with the dust
travel walked into q recruiting station in
Portland, Me-, the other day, and wanted
to enlist. he was examined and rejected
because he weighed only l25 pounds. He
said that he had walked from the northern
part of the state; that he weighed 1876
pounds when he started, and that he
thought he would fat up some If he had q
chance. The recruiting officer told HIM to
call sgain, and in less than week he did,
and bad gained so decidedly In hesh that
he was readily accepted.
Young Charles Parmalee, OF Ansonia
| Connecticut, had q tremendous scare the
| other night. He was walking on the rail-
road track after dark and caught his foot
between q plank and rail at crossing.
While trying to get free he heard an sp-
| preaching train. As he struggled 1t came
nearer and nearer, until justss ts made up
his mind Tor death. the headlight showed